Dolores and her father live
an idyllic life in the Canadian wilderness. When Peter Burke,
a naturalist and investigator for the Government, arrives in
the area for some work, is invited to stay with Dolores and her
father, and the two young people fall in love.

Rydal, a muderer on
the run, is caught by a Mountie. What the Mountie doesn't know
is that Rydal's half-breed friend is in the bushes ready to shoot
him.

Rydal's obsession with
Dolores starts when he finds her swimming nude in a secluded
spot near her cabin.

Rydal tries to force
his attentions on Dolores.

Dolores' father is
killed by Rydal. Peter comforts her after she has pulled her
father's lifeless body from the river.

Peter and Dolores are
married. They decide to return to the old cabin, but find that
the ship's captain is Rydal. Rydal stages an accident in an attempt
to have Peter killed.

Dolores befriends the vicious
Wapi, a dog that no man has been able to get near.

Rydal's partner in
crime, Sealskin Blake, promises to help Dolores get her injured
husband to Fort Confidence for medical attention.

"I heard you plotting
with Rydal last night," she tells Blake. "Unless you
play square, I shall kill you. Tell your man to drive us to Fort
Confidence."

After four days in
driving sknow on a dog sled, finally safe at Fort Confidence
where her husband gets proper medical attention.